Bug 438862 – net-misc/openvswitch requires write access to /etc

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas Steinmetz 2012-10-18 21:53:57 UTC]

openvswitch requires write access to /etc which is not sensible. /etc may be on a ro mounted root (in my case a ro mounted ssd). If lock files and suchlike stuff is required /etc is the wrong place, /var should be used instead.

Examples:

/etc/openvswitch/.conf.db.tmp.~lock~
/etc/openvswitch/.conf.db.~lock~

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-10-19 15:00:39 UTC]

--with-pkidir=/etc/openvswitch/pki

[Comment 2 Spooky Ghost 2013-02-12 08:46:00 UTC]

/etc/openvswitch is the default location for the configuration database and (I assume) the lock files need to reside on the same filesystem as conf.db.  Can you run ovsdb-server with an alternate database path to suit your environment with a r/o /etc?  It doesn't seem appropriate to move configuration data to /var by default.

[Comment 3 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2013-02-12 08:53:03 UTC]

I guess we should move it to /var/db/openvswitch since upstream describes the configuration files as database anyway.
Any objections?

[Comment 4 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2013-04-08 19:38:56 UTC]

Fixed in version bump to 1.9.0 by moving the configuration database to /var/lib/openvswitch